This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.